Zach Butcher
Tetrate
Head of Product, Founding Engineer
Zack works as a Founding Engineer at Tetrate and has helped in a variety of roles across the company - currently he’s Head of Product. At Tetrate he works with some of the largest enterprises in the world to adopt Envoy and Istio. Zack was one of the earliest engineers on the Istio project at Google, and currently sits in his second term as a community elected representative on the project’s Steering Committee. He co-wrote Istio: Up and Running and works actively with NIST to co-author a series of Special Publications forming the authoritative standards for microservice security for the US government, including NIST SP 800-204A and NIST SP 800-204B. He also collaborates with that same group at NIST in undertaking research into cutting-edge access control algorithms and systems. Before Tetrate, Zack worked across Google Cloud Platform on its central resource hierarchy, service management, identity & access management systems, as well as Google’s internal mesh that Istio draws from.